Ricky Crano received his Ph.D. in 2014, with a dissertation, directed by Philip Armstrong and Brian Rotman, on the role of postwar neoliberal social thought in the formation and maintenance of late capitalist digital cultures. He subsequently spent six years as a lecturer in English and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Tufts University and currently holds an appointment as an academic researcher in the Humanities Center at the University of California, Irvine, where he also teaches digital culture and STS classes in English, Film and Media Studies, and Anthropology. Ricky has recently published work on art NFTs, dispositifs, and social media micro-fascisms. He is a contributing editor at Angelaki and the treasurer of the Cultural Studies Association. He lives in Los Angeles, loves coaxing rough sonic textures from guitars, and is working on a book called Swipe Right: Participatory Authority and the Partial Joys of Networked Life.
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